Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-02
THE RED FLAG.
An Anarchist Orator Tells Who Are the
Foreigners In America and Who
Are the Natives.
An imprisoned EulOgy OF the Flag for
Which More Noble Hearts Have Died
Than ANY Other.

NEW YORK, Nov. 29.-Cooper UnioI
was filed to overlooking last night witt
| people who sympsthizad with the ChicsgC
anarchists who were hanged. The meet
ing was called by the Trades declarations
snd in behalf OF the widows and orphans
OF the anarchists recently executed il
! Chicago. II was an anarchist meeting
through and through. There were rec
ribbons and feathers on the women, red
neckties and hat bands on the men
There was a red and black flag back OF
the stage and portraits Of the hanged
anarchists were draped in black. The
police were present IN force, bat the
meeting YVES not interrupted. Mr..
Shevitch, who was the orator, said in
substance:
"It is no time to cheer. II is no time
to weep. 1t is time } think-s time to
get ready for action. It is q memorial
We are to celebrate tonight, not in honor
OF those who do not want any expression
OF feeling. It is to the people of the
country. The judicial murder in Chicago
would have been impossible even in Rus
STA. The men were not hanged for g
crime. They were hanged for what they
had thought. written and spoken. They
did not hang Spies and the other an
archists alone. They hanged free speech,
free thought. 1t is supposed the men
were cranks, were foreigners to whom
little attention was psid. If they were
such why was such an effort put forth TO
suppress them? It is mistake 20 sup
pose their ideas do not amount to any,
thing. A quarter Of century ago John
Brown,
A NATIVE AMERICAN,
was lYnched and four years later half of
the nation was marching on with bis soul.
Do you want to know the names OF the
foreigners in this country? They are Jay
Gould, the Vanderbilts, the Russell Sages.
The foreigners are not the anarchists.
The element who have nothing in kind
with the people ere the capitalists. They
control our politics with their money and
have disgraced our honor and ibertyp
Their cry of flaw and order is for their
own protection, for the protection of their
stolen property. The execution in Chica-
go will forever be handed down as the
worst crime in the history of this people.
Powderiy and Henry George have placed
themselves IN line with the hangman.
The object of the tragedy was to intimi-
dste the advance workers in the labor
IL ovement. There was no other cause
for the murder.
You have heard it said that the snarch-
lists do not belong to this country. They
do not want to belong to this country
They do not need to come under its flag.
They have fig OF their own-1 red fag,
What IS the flag for which more
NOBLE HEARTS HAVE DIED
thsn for any other? What does this red
flag mean? It means the blood of human
lty 1t means to put q stop to the
shedding of blood. 1t means to
put stop to the condition of those who
work but cannot enjoy, and those who do
not work but do enjoy. There is blood
on that flag-the blood Of thousands and
millions slaughtered for that 13g. 1t is
drenched in the blood of the victims of
the militia in Illinois and other states.
II that flag is dangerous, gentlemen of
the press, that danger has been created
oy the men who employ you-your own
BOSSES. That talk about law and order
is only dust that is thrown in the eyes of
the people.
nope it Is the habit to send spies to
take down the words of the speakers on
these occasions, and that they do not
alter them. Let US stand together; let
Us be more fiery in our language than
ever before. Let the blood Of the snar-
,hlsts cry out through the world. 1t is
our fag. We will raise it. We will carry
{ through your streets. The time is not !
ar distant when national monument
will be raised to the men murdered in |
Chicago"
Resolutions were passed in which those |
present pledged themselves to support |
he widows and orphans Of the hanged !
Chicago snarchists.